Armature-winding for high-speed dynamo-electric machines.



PATENTED APR. 21, 1908.

B. G LAMME. ARMATURE WINDING FOR- HIGH SPEED DYNAMO ELECTRIC MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILBDJUNE 2, 1905.

v IYNVENTOR I20 .956% BY 5 A TORNEY I LllllllllllllllllIIHIHIIIIIITI UNITED STATES Parana cr mes;

BENJAMIN G. LAMME, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIm ASSIGNOR WESTINGHOUSE ELEP- TRIO & MANUFACTURING GOMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

ARMATURE-WINDING FOR HIGH-SPEED DYNAMIC-ELECTRIC MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent Patented 21,1908.

Application filed June 2, 1905. Serial No. 263,479.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJMHN G. LAMME,

a citizen of the United States, and a resification.

My invention relates to armature windings for dynamo-electric machines, and it has for its object to provide an improved form and arrangement of such windin 's for special use with machines that are adapted for high speeds of rotation.

In the construction of large direct current generators of the usual form and for ordinary voltages, the armatures are usually provided with parallel-circuit windings having' but a single turn per coil or per commu tator bar. The number oi field magnet poles and, consequently, the number of parallel armature circuits is generally deter- I mined by the amount of current that may be successfully commutated and that may be carried by armature conductors of practical proportions; i. a, the number of pairs of field magnet poles and the number of parallel armature circuits are varied in proportion to the current capacity of the machine.

It is a comparatively simple problem to construct machines for operation at slow speeds in which the current per armature circuit and the numbers of poles and com mutator segments are not extraordinary without adopting abnormal proportions for the machine as a whole, but when it is desired to operate at higher speeds than have been usual, such, for instance, as may be obtained by the use of steam turbinesas rime movers, great difliculties in design an construction are immediately encountered: The maximum safe peripheral speeds of thee-armature and commutator limit and determine the diameters of these parts and the maximum number of commutator segments, if the minimum practical width of a segment has been fixed, is deendent upon the diameter oi that mem er. The number of field magnet poles is dependent upon the maximum number of commutator segments, ii a given number of segments )er pole is deemed necessary in. order that the voltage l 2 cent segments may not be eX- itis also dependent upon the sired widths of the pole pieces and interpolar spaces, the provision of a wide commutating field being of considerable advantags in operation.

*in the consideration of specific problems of high speed operation, it will generally be found that the number of poles and, consequently, the number of parallel circuits, and armature conductors must be smaller, with a corresponding increase in the size and current-carrying capacity of the conductors, than has been considered allowable for low speed machihes. Since the number of poles cannot be conveniently increased to what would ordinarily be employed in corresponding low speedmachines, it is evidently desirablethat the same benefits or the equiva embodied in high speedmachines, and it is the-object of my'invention to provide a maavailable circumferential space and the delent of the benefits that may be derived from 1' an increase in. the number of poles shall be chine which shall embody such improvements'. c i I v In a drum-wound armature, adjacent com mutator bars are connected to op osite ends of the armature coils, and in case t ere is but one turn per coil, the direction of the electromotiveforce in a complete turn'must be reversed when the two commutator segments are connected by a brush. The rear end of each coil is at a potential that is neutral to.

the two commutator-bars to which the front ends of the coil are connected. If commutator segments are rovided intermediate the segments to whic the ends of the coils areconnected and these intermediate segments are connected to the rear ends of the coils in such manner that no electroinotive force may be generated in the connectin conductors, then thedifferences of potentia. between exhaeent segments will be half of that, which. formerly existed, or theelectro- -motive force generated in one-hali'of a turn or 1n a single armature conducton In this manner, a machine adapted. to a hi%hspeed of rotation ma be designed who. has a small number 0 poles and a small number of conductors in proportion to the voltage desired, and the number of commutator bars may be twice as greatas the number of turns grammatic view of longitudinal, sectional view of a portion armature of a dynamo-electric machine provided with a winding constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is a diapart of an armature windmg of the form shown in Fig. 1.

The ma netizable core 1 of an armature 2 is 1provide with a winding com rising a plura ity of coils 3, their ends, whic 1 are remote from the commutator segments 5, bemg connected to alternate segments by comparatively high-resistance conductors 21 which are located in thesame slots as the armature conductors. Comparatively low resistance conductors 22 connect the remaining commutator segments to the same points in the armature coils as the conductors 21, but they are located in apertures 8 in the armature s ider, or they may be otherwise located outside of the armature core structure and the magnetic field of the machine. With this arrangement, when an armature conductor is moving in a magnetic field, the connection or lead which lies in the commutator slot will generate an electromotive force correspondin to half a turn, while the conductor located outside of the magnetizable core will generate little orno electromotive force and conse be ap roxlmately equal to the voltage generate in a single armature conductor.

From a consideration of the descri tion and drawings, it will be understood E81? I provide an equivalent of a lar e number of magnetic poles by decreasing t e number of armature conductors in series and, consequently, the voltage between commutator segrments. i

. he structural details and the arrangements of the armature conductors and connec tions thereof with the commutator segments quently the electromotive force between ad acent commutator segments willof an I may segments by means of be varied considerably from what has been here specifically shown and described without departing from the spirit of my invention. I I

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a slotted armaturecore and a commutator cylinder, of a winding comprising a plurality of coils located in the armature. slots, cated in the armature slots for terminals of the coils with alternate commutator segments, and other conductors located- Outside of the armature core for connecting the terminalsof the coils with the remaining commutator segments.

2. The combination with a slotted armature core and a commutator cylinder, of a winding comprising a lurality of coils located in the armature silots, the ends of the coils remote from the commutator cylinder conductors loa connecting the beingconnected to alternate commutator conductors located in the armature slots and also by means of conductors located outside of the magnetizable' portion of the armature core.

3., The combination with a slottedarmature core and a commutator cylinder, of a winding comprising a plurality of coils located in the armature slots, the ends of the coils remote from the commutator cylinder being connected to commutator segments by means of comparatively high resistance conductors located in the armature slotsand by comparativelylow resistance conductors located outside of the the armature core. v I In testimony whereof, I have hereunto submagnetizable portion of scribed my name this 31st day of BENJ. G. Witnesses: I ELIZABETH Lrvmesronn, BIRNEY HINES.

May 1905. LAMME. 

